Notorious Arms Trafficker Named President of NRA

Oliver North is sworn in before congressional testimony on July 7, 1987.*

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Well, well, well:

Oliver North’s background makes him in some ways the perfect choice for the modern NRA—whose primary activity, as its spokeswoman Dana Loesch* makes clear below, isn’t as much Second Amendment lobbying or promoting gun safety as it is conducting a Trump-style cultural-resentment offensive against Americans who support gun control regulations:

Thrilled about the Oliver North news. A total warrior for freedom, this is the last person that anti-gun advocates would want as the new President of the NRA board.

In summary, an individual who lied to Congress about illegal weapons sales to a state sponsor of terrorism is now the president of an organization whose central belief is that legal gun ownership is the key to maintaining a safe country.

*Correction, May 7, 2018: A caption on this post originally misstated that the photo was from the year 2987. It was from 1987. This post also originally misspelled Dana Loesch’s first name.